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Review Date: July, 2

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The developers at VideoLAN have updated their amazingly popular VLC media player application with a whole new level of improvements and Retina graphics for the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display. VLC has been downloaded over 1 billion times across Mac, Windows and Linux computers. Great news is that 2.0.2 version is out now and available for free!As a considerable competition to QuickTime, the newest VLC media player improves video playback, adds more video output options. The latest version also includes a lot of bug fixes, which is a pleasant addition to all new features.

In addition to the Retina graphics for the latest MacBook Pro, the application has a “go automatically to full-screen” feature. There is also support for the latest version of Growl and the ability to drag and drop items between the playlist, services and media library.For most of us, VLC has always been the go-to player when QuickTime couldn’t recognize a certain kind of file or play a video properly. Widely considered to be something like the Swiss Army Knife in the world of video players for the Mac, VLC is a first-in-a-list download for anyone who works with different types of video formats on daily basis. The application can be download from here for free.

There is a whole bunch of new features and improvements in this latest update, so here’s the full list of changes:

1. Enabled drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and the persistent media library

2. Various video output improvements, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support

3. Enabled import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules to the media library or the temporary playlist

4. Added media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple. This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG manufacturing keyboards under the brand “Cherry”

8. Added controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track Synchronization panel

9. Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now

10. Fixed crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop

11. Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop

12. Fixed a crash when attaching harddrives with multiple partitions while VLC is running

13. Improved OSD rendering in fullscreen mode

14. Improved fullscreen behavior when using a smartphone remote based upon VLC’s http interface

15. The selected audio device is retained throughout multiple VLC sessions now

16. Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control Interface can lead to undefined results, the respective options will be automatically reset on the first launch, if needed.This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.

17. Updated Growl plugin supporting Growl 1.3.

18. Improved reliablity in detecting VIDEO_TS folders when opened through the “Open Disc” panel.

19. Re-implemented the “Window Decorations” option, which, if disabled, hides all the UI elements from the video output window to give you the cleanest experience possible.

20. Improved the window title behavior when using the dark interface mode. It correctly responds to right and double-click events now.

21. Miscellaneous minor interface improvements

Video Output

PCs running Windows XP will use the DirectX mode by default now, like in VLC’s 1.1.x release due to a fast number of broken drivers